Today we will be talking about some very handy light fixtures called driveway lights. If you’ve never heard of driveway lights before, let me take just a minute and explain to you what they are. A driveway light is basically a low voltage light fixture that is designed primarily to act as if a marker along the edge of your driveway. Driveway lighting is primarily used to give drivers a clear indication of where the edge of the driveway is. Although their primary purpose is utilitarian in nature, adding driveway lighting can also improve the look of your landscaping. Having driveway lights spaced evenly along either side of your driveway really can have a dramatic effect on the appearance of your landscaping at night.
There are basically two types of driveway lights to choose from when installing this type of lighting. The first type are low voltage driveway lights that are powered by your home’s electrical system. These driveway light fixtures are low voltage for safety purposes. When you install this type of lighting around your driveway, you typically only bury the wiring a few inches deep. If your driveway lights weren’t low voltage and you accidentally cut through one of the wires with a shovel, you could receive a jolt of a lifetime.
To install this type of driveway lighting, you simply space the light fixtures evenly along the perimeter of your driveway and press the driveway light fixture into the soil. They are usually on a metal or plastic stake that is easily driven into the soil. Then, you simply dig a very shallow trench to hide the wiring between the light fixtures. Next, you place the wire in the trench and back fill over it. At the end of the run of driveway light wiring, will be a small transformer that you plug into a standard 120 volt electrical outlet. The transformer that I’ve referred to is the device that converts the 120 volts AC electricity into safe, low voltage DC electricity that will power your driveway lighting.
The next type of driveway lighting is a little bit easier to install and it is solar driveway lighting. These little solar lights are very user friendly and require basically no installation at all. To install solar driveway lighting, all you need to do is remove the solar light fixture from the package, choose the location where you would like the light to be, and press the stake into the soil. The only thing that takes a little bit of thought is the placement of the solar light fixture. You should make sure that you don’t place the solar light fixture in an area where it is always in the shade. If you do this, the sun won’t have an opportunity to shine on the solar panel and charge the solar driveway lights and you won’t get any light from them at night. A very easy to install type of driveway lights are solar rock lights. These can be positioned and moved as many times as you feel like it.
Another very handy use for driveway lights is to use them to line your walkways as walkway lighting. Not only will they make your walkways nicer to look at. They will make them safer to walk on at night.
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